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How does culture affect identity?

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The Lions Of The Little Rock Quote #1 : 

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"I talk a lot. Just not out loud where anyone can hear. At least I used to be that way".

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"They roared. It was Just a little roar, but it worked"

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"I guess I've learned its not enough to just think things. You have to say them too. Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around your head" .

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Tanya Lee Stone discusses how Kirsten Levine puts her emotions in awe as she reads throughout this book. She describes her emotion of feeling in awe as a reader going through the book and then in admiration as a writer. She explains how this book, being released during the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday, is fitting for this because King was the one who had initially was reaching to ensure the safety for the new incoming black students. Also known as the Little Rock Nine. Stone gives a summary of this book but also manages to correlate it to the history behind Martin Luther King Jr. and how they each play an important role in history, but mainly the struggles of Marlee the protagonist Levine creates.

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The Lions Of The Little Rock by Kristen Levine

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This is a first hand encounter with the problems of assumption mixed in with racism. When face to face with her boss, Kevin Costner played by Al Harrison, is caught in an accusation of not doing her job, Katherine Johnson played by Taraji P. Henson decides to step up out of her comfort zone because she's had enough of the disrespect and decides to speak up about where shed real been going , which was really the bathroom. But not just any bathroom, the bathroom specifically for people of color because she wasn't allowed in the white restrooms due to the color of her skin. Lamenting to her boss about how it takes approximately 40 minutes to get to the nearest colored bathroom she manages to astonish everyone in the room with her too , as she is the only person of color in the room and was currently yelling at her white boss who was a male. Her identity is who she is, whether its any color of the rainbow she agrees that she is still human and deserves her own respect just like all the others around her.

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TedTalk: The gift and power of emotional courage 

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TedTalk: The gift and power of emotional courage 

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Susan David

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Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility. A talk to share.

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Rationale : The gift and power of emotional Courage 

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Rationale : The gift and power of emotional Courage 

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TEDwomen in 2017 discuss a variety of stories from their childhood that ended up shaping their lives. Susan David shares a story from her childhood and explains how her silence shaped her to who she is today and how it affected her. But more importantly how she deemed and gained her own power of emotional courage through grief, silence,shame, negativity, positivity, failure, ect. She now discusses through the TEDwomen talks that Normal natural emotions are now either good or bad , no in between. And being positive has become a whole new thing with morals allowing people to stop behind so angry. Because all of this is who we are and it shapes us and allows a creation to our identity and culture. Because The more one try's to ignore it the more your emotions control your identity and who you are as well as your own personal culture.

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I had two near-simultaneous thoughts upon closing Kristin Levine's latest novel, "The Lions of Little Rock." The first, as a reader, was simply, Ahhhhh. The second, as a writer, was of admiration. Creating a book that reads as though written in one effortless breath requires a rare talent.

It is also fitting that I finished reading the novel just as our nation was celebrating Martin Luther King's Birthday. It was King who sent a telegram to President Eisenhower urging him to ensure the safety of the black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, at a previously all-white school in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Levine's tale takes place at a junior high school in the same district one year later, against a backdrop of racial tension and the continuing battle over school integration. Chock-full of historical references, the narrative reflects substantial research. This story could have been a didactic one. It could have preached progress over stagnation, tolerance over bigotry, community over divisiveness. Levine ("The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had") certainly weaves these ideals throughout, but they never overshadow what is most important here, a friendship between two people so strong it can overcome the worst of storms.

We learn straight off that 12-year-old Marlee Nisbett finds it so hard to connect with people that she has accepted a subservient role to Sally McDaniels ever since she was 5 and Sally first pushed her off a slide. "She likes to boss you around," Marlee's sister observes, advising Marlee to find better friends. Marlee's internal response ("That was true. But she was also familiar. I like familiar") shows a mind-set so firmly entrenched that it foreshadows a major personality shift. Marlee, desperately shy, protects herself well, reciting prime numbers in her head rather than having to talk to other people.

That is, until a new girl named Liz comes to school. Liz, all confidence, strides right over to Marlee, who is sitting alone at a lunch table and eating a bag lunch because, as she explains it, "I didn't like to tell the lunch ladies what I wanted." Without thinking, Marlee opens her mouth and says to Liz, "Please sit down."

With these three words, an extraordinary friendship is born. Liz recognizes a fellow hard-working, intelligent student in Marlee. She comes up with a plan to cure Marlee of her fear of speaking and gets her to agree to a joint project, to be presented aloud to the class. But on the day of the presentation, Liz is inexplicably absent. Her secret, it turns out, has been discovered and she's been pulled from school. "It's called passing," Marlee's black housekeeper, Betty Jean, explains. "Some Negroes who are really light skinned and have straight hair try it."

Marlee is devastated. Eventually, she and Liz devise ways to see each other, but the stakes get higher as they are caught by their families as well as a teenager who threatens them and ultimately throws a stick of dynamite through a window in Betty Jean's house. Trusting her own convictions but aware of the danger around them, Marlee realizes: "Doing the right thing was harder than I'd expected it to be. And more confusing too."

Marlee and Liz's love for each other, the lengths they are willing to go to fight back against the injustice of their plight, and the larger integration struggle playing out in Little Rock drive the book's story. Readers will root for a painfully shy girl to discover the depths of her own courage and find hope in the notion that even in tumultuous times, standing up for the people you love can't be wrong. Satisfying, gratifying, touching, weighty - this authentic piece of work has got soul.

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I had two near-simultaneous thoughts upon closing Kristin Levine's latest novel, "The Lions of Little Rock." The first, as a reader, was simply, Ahhhhh. The second, as a writer, was of admiration. Creating a book that reads as though written in one effortless breath requires a rare talent.

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Marlee Nisbett, a twelve - year old seventh grader living in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958 during segregation and the upcoming of integration, is a young quiet and shy girl who is trying to learn her way around the obstacles she is being forced to face in life. On top of the fact that she has no friends and feels isolated against everyone, she is just starting middle school and has to meet new people. And it's not that Marlee can't physically talk , she simply chooses not to. That is until she meets the new girl Liz, her soon to be best friend. Liz is everything Marlee wishes she could be which is why Marlee becomes so inspired by Liz and eventually over comes her fear of speaking. But when suddenly Liz disappears one day without even saying good bye, Marlee is forced to figure out why she left and where she could have gone. Soon the news comes out that Liz was a Colored girl passing for white. But Marlee doesn't care she just want her friend back and is willing to face the challenges and dangers from others just for Liz to come back. Eventually after facing all the violence that is being thrown at liz's family, they leave Little Rock but a new stage of friendship begins to flourish between the two girls as they manage to find balance in Time to continue to talk to one another as they move on in life.

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"Since many of us have a very busy and often stressful life, it is important for me to bring the calming and rejuvenating effect of nature into people's lives through my artwork." Lucie Bilodeau was born in Montreal, Canada, in May 1967. After spending 28 years living in the United States, she moved back to Canada in 2020. She has been making a living as a professional artist since 1993. She expressed her first serious interest in art when she was seven years old. When she was 14 years old, she studied at Mission: Renaissance School in Montreal, Canada. She took courses that taught her traditional fine art skills, including an in-depth study of the masters: Rembrandt, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Fantin Latour, and others. Many of Ms....

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African Lion Art Print by Lucie Bilodeau

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Product Details African Lion art print by Lucie Bilodeau. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.

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Lyrics Excerpt : You're Somebody Else (Flora Cash) 

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Lyrics Excerpt : You're Somebody Else (Flora Cash) 

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[Flora cash:]
Well you look like yourself
But you're somebody else
Only it ain't on the surface
Well you talk like yourself
No, I hear someone else though
Now you're making me nervous

You were the better part
Of every bit of beating heart that I had
Whatever I had
I finally sat alone
Pitch black flesh and bone
Couldn't believe that you were gone

Well you look like yourself
But you're somebody else
Only it ain't on the surface
Well you talk like yourself
No, I hear someone else though
Now you're making me nervous

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Rationale : You're Somebody Else By Flora Cash

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Rationale : You're Somebody Else By Flora Cash

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These lyrics, written by Flora Cash shows a balance between seeing part of yourself or someone else and then completely seeing/feeling like a whole other person. Its about finding the balance between how you see yourself vs how you represent yourself to others.  primarily about the struggles that are propounded between the surface of yourself and the deep part inside of you, like the way you see someone and how they might seem like themselves but suddenly their whole identity has changed and you don't even know who your lookin at anymore. Or above all it could simply be fear, fear of being able to show ones true self and instead hiding behind the curtain to satisfy others wants and needs.

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This poem by N0thing serves to help put an image in the past and presents experience with racism and how it's now invested into our culture as people. This poem is solely based on how we're divide ourselves amongst one another. Not by forcing it, but by choice. This poem's author represents how we separate ourselves from one another by color, race and religion. But aren't we all the same, simply human. That's the essential question represented through out the poem. It explains how we believe the world puts on this negative display against society but when in reality it's not the world that has divided us. We have no one to blame other than ourselves.

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Lions are a representation of Strong, powerful ,brave ,leaders ,ect, except this particular painting painted by Lucie Bilodeau is meant to represent the opposite and instead represent the courage it took become the "lion". As most people see a lion as a strong leader within their pack by showing bravery and being protective, not much talk about the tactics to get there. At any point in a given time to become something it takes an amount of courage and stability to pull through. In mostly all cases you need to be driven. The lion accesses a certain amount of courage that allows it to with hold its pack and its self all together, which is what is represented within this art.